Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Johan Santana is the obvious choice--even his closest competition for the award, Boston's Curt Schilling, has said as much. But Johan does not pitch for an east coast team, and so we cannot be sure. Part of me says he'd have to end the season 25-0 with an ERA under 1.00 to even have a shot, and part of me has a flicker of faith in the baseball writers. But only a flicker, mind you.

Responsible For This Nonsense

I'm a tree-hugging, Bush-bashing wacko commie liberal living in Minneapolis with two cats, hundreds of books, and more pairs of Birkenstocks than I'm prepared to admit to. My obsessions include baseball, books, writing and knitting. I'm a member of the Bloodwake Pirates re-enactment group and its auxilliary, the Ladies of Tortuga Knitting and Keelhauling Society. My heroes, in no particular order, are Harry Potter, Satchel Paige, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bobby Sands, Paul Wellstone, Sheila Wellstone and my tree-hugging, wacko commie liberal mom.

Quotable

"I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives."--Molly Ivins